This is a list of cruiser

Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...

s, from 1860 to the present. It includes protected

Protected cruiser

The protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from shrapnel caused by exploding shells above...

, light

Light cruiser

A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...

, armoured, battle-

Battlecruiser

Battlecruisers were large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century. They were developed in the first decade of the century as the successor to the armoured cruiser, but their evolution was more closely linked to that of the dreadnought battleship...

, heavy

Heavy cruiser

The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...

 and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

Argentina

• Patagonia (1885)
• Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo
• Nueve de Julio (1892)
  Argentine cruiser Nueve de Julio (1892)
  Nueve de Julio was a protected cruiser of the Argentine Navy. The Nueve de Julio was designed by Philip Watts and was one of a series of fast protected cruisers built by Armstrong for export...
  
  
• Buenos Aires (1895)
• Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
  • (1895)
  • (1896)
  • (1896)
  • (1897)
• Veinticinco de Mayo class
  Veinticinco de Mayo class cruiser
  The two Veinticinco de Mayo class heavy cruisers served in the Argentine Navy through World War II. They were the only post-Washington Naval Treaty heavy cruisers built for a South American Navy...
  
  
  • (1929) - BU 1962
  • (1929) - BU 1962
• La Argentina
  ARA La Argentina
  The ARA La Argentina was a light cruiser, designed for training naval cadets, built for the Argentine Navy. The ship was authorised in 1934, and the contract was put out to tender in 1935, being won by the British company Vickers-Armstrongs at a cost of 6 million pesos.La Argentina was built in...
  
   (1939) - BU 1974
• Brooklyn class
  Brooklyn class cruiser
  The Brooklyn-class cruisers were seven light cruisers of the United States Navy which served during World War II. Armed with 5 triple turrets mounting 6-inch guns, they and their near sisters of the St. Louis class mounted more heavy-caliber guns than any other US cruisers...
  
  
  • Nueve De Julio
    USS Boise (CL-47)
    USS Boise was a United States Navy Brooklyn-class light cruiser. The cruiser was named for Boise, the capital city of the state of Idaho....
    
     (1951) - Scrapped 1978
  • (1951) - Sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
    Falklands War
    The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
    
    

Australia

Small cruisers

• Protector (1883/84, South Australia) - Abandoned aground c. 1943
• Encounter (1902) - Scuttled 1932
• British Chatham class
  • Sydney
    HMAS Sydney (1912)
    HMAS Sydney was a Chatham class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy . Laid down in 1911 and launched in 1912, the cruiser was commissioned into the RAN in 1913....
    
     (1912) - BU 1929
  • Melbourne
    HMAS Melbourne (1912)
    HMAS Melbourne was a Town class light cruiser operated by the Royal Australian Navy . Commissioned in 1913, the cruiser served during World War I. She was paid off in 1928, and broken up for scrap in 1929.-Design and construction:...
    
     (1912) - BU 1929
  • Brisbane
    HMAS Brisbane (1915)
    HMAS Brisbane was a Town class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy . Built in Sydney between 1913 and 1916 to the Chatham subtype design, Brisbane operated in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Australian coastal waters during World War I.Following the end of the war, the cruiser was...
    
     (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
• Adelaide
  HMAS Adelaide (1918)
  HMAS Adelaide was a Town class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy , named after Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia...
  
   (1918) - BU 1949

Light cruisers

• British Leander (Apollo) class
  Leander class cruiser (1931)
  The Leander class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service in World War II. They were named after mythological figures, and all ships were commissioned between 1933 and 1936...
  
  
  • Perth
    HMAS Perth (D29)
    HMAS Perth was a Modified Leander class light cruiser operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. She was constructed for the Royal Navy , and commissioned as HMS Amphion in 1936...
    
     (1934) - Sunk 1942
  • Sydney
    HMAS Sydney (1934)
    HMAS Sydney , named for the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three Modified Leander class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy...
    
     (1934) - Sunk 1941
  • Hobart
    HMAS Hobart (1939)
    HMAS Hobart was a Modified Leander class light cruiser which served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Originally constructed for the Royal Navy as HMS Apollo, the ship entered service in 1936, and was sold to Australia two years later...
    
     (1934) - BU 1962

Battlecruiser

• Australia
  HMAS Australia (1911)
  HMAS Australia was one of three s built for the defence of the British Empire. Ordered by the Australian government in 1909, she was launched in 1911, and commissioned as flagship of the fledgling Royal Australian Navy in 1913...
  
   (1911) - Scuttled 1924

Heavy cruisers

• British County class
  County class cruiser
  The County class was a class of heavy cruisers built for the British Royal Navy in the years between the First and Second World Wars. They were the first post-war cruiser construction for the Royal Navy and were designed within the limits of the Washington Naval Conference of 1922...
  
  
  • Australia
    HMAS Australia (1927)
    HMAS Australia was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy . One of two Kent-subclass ships ordered for the RAN in 1924, Australia was laid down in Scotland in 1925, and entered service in 1928...
    
     (1927) - BU 1955
  • Canberra
    HMAS Canberra (1927)
    HMAS Canberra , named after the Australian capital city of Canberra, was a Royal Australian Navy heavy cruiser of the Kent subclass of County class cruisers...
    
     (1927) - Sunk 1942
  • Shropshire (1927) - BU 1955

Austria-Hungary

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Protected cruisers
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  • Helgoland (1914)
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Brazil

• Almirante Tamandaré (1890), named after the Marquis of Tamandaré
  Marquis of Tamandaré
  Joaquim Marques Lisboa, the Marquis of Tamandaré , was a military officer and member of the Liberal Party. His long military career expanded from the Brazilian War of Independence to the Paraguayan War .In the year 1936–1938 Brazil published a coin with his portrait....
  
  
• Benjamin Constant (1892)
• Republica (1892)
• Almirante Barroso (1896)
• • (1910) - Lost 1945
  • (1910) - BU 1948
• • Almirante Barroso
    USS Philadelphia (CL-41)
    USS Philadelphia , a Brooklyn class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the fifth ship named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1950s, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Barroso....
    
     (1951) - later renamed Barroso
  • Almirante Tamandaré
    USS St. Louis (CL-49)
    USS St. Louis , the lead ship of her class of light cruiser, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy named after the city of St. Louis, Missouri. In January 1951, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Tamandaré....
    
     (1951) - later renamed Tamandaré

Canada

Protected cruiser

• British Apollo class
  Apollo class cruiser
  The Apollo class were a class of second-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century that served during the Boer War and World War I....
  
  
  • (1891, ex-British Rainbow, obtained 1910) - Sold 1920

Light cruisers

• British Arethusa class
  • Aurora
• British Ceylon class
  Crown Colony class cruiser
  The Crown Colony-class light cruisers of the Royal Navy were named after Crown Colonies of the British Empire. The first eight are known as the Fiji class, while the last three to be built are commonly referred to as the Ceylon class and were built to a slightly modified design.-Design:They were...
  
  
  • Uganda (1941) - Renamed Quebec, BU 1961
• British Minotaur class
  Minotaur class cruiser (1943)
  The Minotaur class of light cruisers of the Royal Navy, also known as the Swiftsure class, was designed as a modified version of the Crown Colony class incorporating war modifications and authorised in 1941, but, in spite of the heavy toll of cruisers in that year and the following one, the...
  
  
  • Ontario
    HMCS Ontario (C53)
    HMCS Ontario was a Minotaur class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy as HMS Minotaur , but transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion and renamed Ontario....
    
     (was HMS Minotaur) (1943) - BU 1960

Armored cruiser

• British Diadem class
  Diadem class cruiser
  The Diadem class cruiser was a class of "First-Class" protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s that served in the First World War...
  
  
  • Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, obtained 1910) - BU 1922

Chile

• (Arturo Prat) (1880) - To Japan before delivery, renamed Tsukushi, BU 1910?
• Esmeralda (1883) - To Japan, renamed Idzumi, discarded 1912
• Presidente Errazuriz class
  • Presidente Errazuriz (1890) - Discarded c. 1920
  • Presidente Pinto (1890) - Discarded c. 1910
• Blanco Encalada (1893) - Discarded 1946
• Ministro Zenteno (1896) - Discarded 1931
• Chacabuco (1898) - Stricken 1959

Armored cruisers

• Esmeralda (1894) - Discarded 1929
• General O'Higgins (1897) - Discarded 1946/54

Light cruisers

• Brooklyn class
  Brooklyn class cruiser
  The Brooklyn-class cruisers were seven light cruisers of the United States Navy which served during World War II. Armed with 5 triple turrets mounting 6-inch guns, they and their near sisters of the St. Louis class mounted more heavy-caliber guns than any other US cruisers...
  
  
  • O'Higgins
  • Capitán Prat

China

• Chao Yung class
  • Chao Yung (1880) - Sunk 1894
  • Yang Wei
    Chinese cruiser Yangwei
    Yangwei was a cruiser in the Qing Dynasty Beiyang Fleet. Its sister ship was the Chaoyong, the lead ship of the class, and the Tsukushi built for Japan was of the same model....
    
     (1881) - Sunk 1894
• Chi Yuan
  Chinese cruiser Jiyuan
  The Jiyuan , sometimes translated as Chiyuan, was a cruiser in the Chinese Beiyang fleet of the Qing government. It was originally ordered as the third vessel in the class of battleships, but as the necessary funds could not be raised and the order was changed to a smaller armoured deck cruiser....
  
   (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
• Kai Che class
  • Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
  • King Ch'ing (1886)
  • Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
• Nan Thin class
  • Nan Thin (1883)
  • Nan Shuin (1884)
  • Fu Ch'ing (1893) - Storm 1898
• Chih Yuan class
  • Chih Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1894
  • Ching Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1895
• King Yuan class
  • King Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1894
  • Lai Yuan
    Chinese cruiser Laiyuan
    The Laiyuan was an armoured cruiser built by the Stettiner Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany for the Chinese Beiyang Fleet....
    
     (1887) - Sunk 1895
• Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
• Tung Chi class
  • Tung Chi (1895) - Sunk 1937
  • Fu An (1894)
• Hai Tien class, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
  • Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
  • Hai Chi
    Chinese cruiser Hai Chi
    Hai Chi was a cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was the largest warship in China with a displacement of 4,300 tons, and was armed with two 8 inch guns and a top speed of 24 knots.-History:...
    
     (1898) "Flag of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
    Yangtze River
    The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...
    
    
• Hai Yung class
  • Hai Yung
    Hai Yung
    Hai Yung was a protected cruiser of the Chinese Navy. The Hai Yung was one of a class of three ships built in Germany for the Chinese after the losses of the First Sino-Japanese War. The ship was a small protected cruiser with quick-firing guns, a departure from the prewar Chinese navy’s emphasis...
    
     (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
  • Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
  • Hai Shen (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
• Ning Hai class
  Ning Hai class cruiser
  The Ning Hai class were a pair of light cruisers in the Chinese fleet before World War II. Ning Hai , the lead ship of the class, was laid down in Japan while the follow-on, Ping Hai , was laid down in China and completed with Japanese assistance to a slightly modified design that...
  
  
  • Ning Hai
    Chinese cruiser Ning Hai
    The Ning Hai was a light cruiser in the Chinese fleet before World War II and the lead ship of her class. It was laid down and launched before the dust of Mukden Incident settled, meaning that the progress of its construction ran far more smoothly than its sistership Ping Hai...
    
     (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by USS Shad(SS-235).
  • Ping Hai
    Chinese cruiser Ping Hai
    The Ping Hai was a light cruiser in the Chinese fleet before World War II and the second ship of the Ning Hai class cruiser. It was laid down in China to the specifications supplied by the Japanese, and Japanese advisors were hired to oversee the construction...
    
     (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and ranamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
• Chung King class
  • Chung King (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy
    Royal Navy
    The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
    
     HMS Aurora (12)
    HMS Aurora (12)
    HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard , with the keel being laid down on the 27 July 1935. She was launched on the 20 August 1936, and commissioned 12 November 1937....
    
    , sold on May 19, 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy, Defected to Chinese Communists and then sunk by Nationalist aircraft in 1949, Continued in service as an accommodations and warehouse hulk until mid 1950s

Denmark

• Fyen (1882)
• Valkyrien (1888)
• Hekla (1890)
• Gejser class
  • Gejser (1892)
  • Heimdal (1894)

Greece

• Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
• Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
• Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
• Georgios Averof (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
• Elli II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia, obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964

India

(purchased 1948), decommissioned, the former British Leander class cruiser

Leander class cruiser (1931)

The Leander class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service in World War II. They were named after mythological figures, and all ships were commissioned between 1933 and 1936...

  (purchased 1957), decommissioned , the former British

Pakistan

(purchased 1956), the former British , renamed Jahangir, c. 1961

Peru

Former merchant ships

• Sócrates class (ex-Portuguese)
  • Sócrates (1880) - Renamed Lima
  • Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
    
     in 1889 as USS Topeka

Light cruisers

• Almirante Grau class
  • BAP Almirante Grau (1906)
  • BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1906)
• Crown Colony class
  Crown Colony class cruiser
  The Crown Colony-class light cruisers of the Royal Navy were named after Crown Colonies of the British Empire. The first eight are known as the Fiji class, while the last three to be built are commonly referred to as the Ceylon class and were built to a slightly modified design.-Design:They were...
  
  
  • BAP Coronel Bolognesi
    BAP Coronel Bolognesi (CL-82)
    BAP Coronel Bolognesi ' was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1943 as HMS Ceylon and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del Perú on February 9, 1960...
    
     (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon
    HMS Ceylon (C30)
    HMS Ceylon was a Ceylon class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named for the island of Ceylon — now Sri Lanka — which was a British possession when she was built.-Wartime career:...
    
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  • BAP Capitán Quiñones
    BAP Capitán Quiñones (CL-83)
    BAP Capitán Quiñones ' was a Crown Colony class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Navy in 1942 as HMS Newfoundland and, after being withdrawn from service, commissioned by the Marina de Guerra del Perú on December 30, 1959...
    
     (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland
    HMS Newfoundland (C59)
    HMS Newfoundland was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. Named after Newfoundland, she fought in the Second World War and was later sold to the Peruvian Navy.-Early career:...
    
    )
• De Ruyter class
  De Zeven Provinciën class cruiser
  The De Zeven Provinciën-class is a class of light cruisers. They were built by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij and Wilton-Fijenoord for the Royal Netherlands Navy...
  
  
  • BAP Almirante Grau
    BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81)
    BAP Almirante Grau ' is a De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. Completed for the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1953 as HNLMS De Ruyter , it was acquired by Peru in 1973. Since then, it has served as the fleet flagship of the Peruvian Navy...
    
     (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter)
  • BAP Aguirre
    BAP Aguirre (CH-84)
    BAP Aguirre ' was a De Ruyter-class cruiser in service with the Peruvian Navy. It was completed for the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1953 as HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën. After two decades in service, it was decommissioned in August 1976 and sold to Peru...
    
     (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën
    HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802)
    The HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën was a De Zeven Provinciën class cruiser with eight 152 mm cannons in double turrets, 8 × 57 mm and 8 × 40 mm machine guns. The rear turret was replaced in 1962 with a RIM-2 Terrier SAM system. She was 185.7 m long, had a beam of 17.25 m and a...
    
    )

Portugal

• Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
• São Gabriel class
  • São Gabriel (1898) - Disposed of 1924
  • São Rafael (1898) - Wrecked 1923
• Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923
• Rainha Dona Amélia (1899) - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915
• Vasco da Gama (1901) - Disposed of 1936
• Carvalho Araújo class
  • Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959
  • República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943

Sweden

Armoured cruiser

• Fylgia
  HMS Fylgia
  HMS Fylgia was an armoured cruiser of the Swedish Navy. She was launched on 20 December 1905 at Finnboda slip at Nacka and was used until 1953 when she was decommissioned. Upon her commissioning, she was the smallest true armored cruiser in the world. She was commonly used as a cadet training ship...
  
   (1905) - Sold for BU 1957

Seaplane cruiser

• Gotland
  HMS Gotland
  There have been at least two ships of the Swedish Navy named HMS Gotland. Gotland itself is an island in the Baltic Sea belonging to Sweden.*HMS Gotland - a Gotland class attack submarine launched in 1995 and as of 2009 in active service....
  
   (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963

Light cruisers

• Tre Kronor class
  Tre Kronor class cruiser
  The Tre Kronor class cruisers were built for the Swedish Navy during World War II.In 1940 the Swedish government decided that two cruisers were to be built. A political debate broke out about the cruisers and work did not start until 1943. The ships were built in Götaverken in Gothenburg...
  
   converted to anti-aircraft cruisers
  • Tre Kronor
    HMS Tre Kronor
    HMS Tre Kronor was a cruiser of the Royal Swedish Navy built during the Second World War.At the start of the war most of the ships of the Royal Swedish Navy were quite old and the navy was in need of new ships. In 1940 the government decided that three cruisers were to be built. A political debate...
    
     (1944)
  • Göta Lejon
    HMS Göta Lejon
    HMS Göta Lejon was the name of the last Swedish cruiser. Together with her sister ship , they were the largest ships ever to serve in the Royal Swedish Navy. In 1971 the Göta Lejon was sold to Chile were she was renamed Almirante Latorre and served in the Chilean Navy until 1984....
    
     (1945)

Mine cruiser

• Älvsnabben
  HMS Älvsnabben
  HMS Älvsnabben was a minelayer of the Swedish Navy. She was built as a freighter, but was requisitioned by the Swedish navy in 1943.A single screw and good fuel economy meant that she was used as the cadet training vessel of the Swedish Navy for a number of years, and she travelled the globe...
  
   (1943)
• Clas Fleming
  HMS Clas Fleming
  HMS Clas Fleming was a mine cruiser of the Swedish Navy from World War I until the Cold War. She was named after the 17th Century Swedish admiral Clas Fleming....
  
  

Torpedo cruisers

• Claes Horn
• Claes Uggla
  HMS Claes Uggla
  HMS Claes Uggla was a torpedo cruiser of the Swedish Navy. She was named after the 17th-century admiral Claes Uggla. The ship's name is spelled as Clas Uggla in some English-language sources.-External links:*...
  
  
• Jacob Bagge
• Psilander
  HMS Psilander
  HMS Psilander was a torpedo cruiser of the Swedish Navy. She was commissioned on July 20, 1900. From 1927 until 1937 she was used for cadet training, and was sunk after being used as an artillery target on August 3, 1939. She was named after the 17th century admiral Gustaf von Psilander....
  
  
• Örnen

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Battlecruisers

• Yavuz
  SMS Goeben
  SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben...
  
   (ex-Goeben
  SMS Goeben
  SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben...
  
  ) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974

Protected cruisers

• Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
• Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911
• Hamidiye
  Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye
  HamidiyeThe name is also sometimes rendered as Hamidieh in English; see Gardiner and Gray, p. 389 and Halpern, p. 228. was an Ottoman cruiser that saw extensive action during the Balkan Wars and World War I...
  
   (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
• Mecidiye
  Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye
  The protected cruiser Mecidiye served in the Ottoman Navy in the Balkan Wars and the First World War. Sunk by a mine, it was salvaged and commissioned by the Russian Navy, before being returned to the Ottomans in 1918...
  
   (1905) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948

Light cruisers

• Midilli (ex-German Breslau
  SMS Breslau
  SMS Breslau was a Magdeburg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine , built in the early 1910s. Following her commissioning, Breslau and the battlecruiser were assigned to the Mittelmeerdivision in response to the Balkan Wars...
  
   ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918

Torpedo cruisers

• Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
• Berk-i Satvet (1906)

United Kingdom

• List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
• List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

Uruguay

Protected cruisers

• Montevideo (ex-Italian Dogali ) (1885) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932